Do you know anyone hooked on Wordle? It's the online game that has been taking the Internet by storm since last Christmas. You probably do. Or maybe it is you who every day invests a few minutes of your time to guess the five-letter word without exhausting the six available attempts.

If English is your native language, you will have no problem playing the game, but for those more familiar with Spanish, like thousands of Latinos living in the United States, the creation of the Spanish version Wordle on Jan. 6 was great news. 

We owe the creation of Wordle in Spanish to a Colombian programmer named Daniel Rodriguez, 30, who works as a software engineer in Austin, Texas. He never imagined he would create with something so popular. 

"I'm quite surprised, I launched the version of the game without any particular intention. I wanted to test it in Spanish because it caught my attention and I'm a programmer, that's all," he confessed to online media outlet Xataka on Jan. 10.

Rodriguez points to his basic knowledge of Javascript for its creation, and he was able to finish the first version of Wordle in Spanish "in two afternoons."

"I saw that in Spanish there are extremely rare five-letter words; if those appeared, they were going to frustrate the player, so I sat for three hours in front of the list of five-letter words and started sifting through them. There were about 500 words left, already randomly scheduled for the next 500 days. In other words, there are already games ready until the end of May 2023," he told Xataka.

Rodriguez, who on his Twitter profile has written "I adapted Wordle to Spanish and I will never do something so popular," has also explained that maintaining the game costs him almost no money and that his only goal is for people to have fun for a while. He accepts donations to maintain the servers, but wants the game to be free forever, following the same non-profit philosophy that prompted Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based programmer with a background in going viral, to launch Wordle in English a few months ago.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Wardle said he wasn't looking for success or money, but simply to give a gift to his wife, who loves these types of games. Three months later, the game has accumulated more than 2 million daily players and still does not ask for registration, advertising or collect user data.